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A65201 The mysteries of Mount Calvary opened and improved In a dialogue betwixt Christ and the soul. By J.V. rector of Woodston, in the county of Huntington. J. V., rector of Woodston, in the county of Huntington. 1686 (1686) Wing V9; ESTC R222549 30,349 74

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Licensed and Entred according to Order THE MYSTERIES OF MOUNT CALVARY Opened and Improved IN A DIALOGUE BETWIXT CHRIST and the SOUL Omnis creatura compatitur Christo morienti sol obscuratur terra movetur Petrae scinduntur velum templi dividitur Sepulchra aperiuntur Solus homo Christo non Compatitur pro quo tamen Solo Christus patitur S. Hieronymus in Mat. 27. Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare Poetae Aut simul jucunda idonea dicere vitae Horat. de Arte Poetica By J. V Rector of Woodston in the County of Huntington LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chappel 1686. THE MYSTERIES OF Mount CALVARY c. SOUL GRant me O Lord thy Spirit from above That I may know the mysteries of thy Love It cramps my Reason and it damps my Faith To read the stories of thy Life and Death Thou art my God infinite Wisdom can Best solve the point why God became a man CHRIST Behold my Soul God's a transcendent Sprite Love Wisdom Justice Mercy infinite Such is his Glorious Nature to the Eye Once to behold is to behold and Dye Nor can a prospect of the Sun be made Ere grateful to the Eye but in a shade The Vail of Moses Face was as a Glass For to reflect the glory of his Face Moses Vail was my flesh that pleasing shade In which Gods Attributes were all displai'd Sin was conceived first by Virgin Woman Since Adam knew her not and she knew no man By Virgin woman sin found entrance in The Virgin Woman's seed attones the sin The birth of sins controuled by my birth Since I was pure and spotless born of Earth Pure as my birth my life hence qualifi'd To expiate those sins for which I di'd Nor did my human nature less express Gods Wisdom equal to his Holiness 'T was Flesh and Blood that sin'd to make this good Thy sin I did atone by Flesh and Blood 'T was man that sin'd 't was God that was offended Man di'd God's satisfied the quarrel ended God's peace with man's proclaimed by my merit Man's peace with God's procured by my Spirit I took thy nature so imparted mine I was humane that thou may'st be Divine I came from Heaven to Heaven I plain'd the Rode God dwelt with man that man may dwell with God When I for sin a Sacrifice was made Gods Justice like his Wisdom was display'd That mercy may be shown God will be Just Either the sinner dyes or Jesus must At the same instant Mercy meant thy good Justice procur'd it with the price of Blood Nor do'st thou read God ever pard'ned Vice Scarce with but ne'r without a Sacrifice For so the Jews in all their solemn Feasts To atone their sins they Sacrificed Beasts And when the Lamb was slain i' th' sinners stead The guilt pass'd over to th' accursed head By these and other rites it was infer'd Sin was not strictly pardon'd as transfer'd David pursu'd with guilt to th' Altar flies His sin is pard'ned but his Infant dies So Just is God but yet so meek and mild He pardons sin but punisheth his Child Fear to offend Justice being so severe Since that thy pardon too doth cost so dear That God is merciful thy sins do shew it His blessed nature prompts him daily to it But since I paid so dearly for thy sin Justice it self doth usher Mercy in So contrite Souls may in Gods Mercy trust Since God is merciful ' cause he is just Buying thy Ransom at so dear a price Justice can ne'r demand the payment twice Gods Love like to his Mercy 's infinite Exerting all its pow'rs with all its might Light ceases not to spread his Golden Bams Fountains would drain themselves in Silver Streams God can't be less than the work of his hands His very Nature is what love commands Thy self unto thy self God gave thee once Ten thousand times thy self he gave thee since But when thy sin and misery he spi'd Took flesh so gave himself for thee and di'd Thus love from Heaven discharging every dart At last he threw himself into thy heart Not only took thy flesh and so thy sin But being man like thee became thy kin What friendship e're was found in any other Of Friend Physician Advocate or Brother All meet in me nay I am more then this Thy Flesh thy Life thy self thy God thy bliss SOUL Since 't was my Lords blest purpose and intent Within my Nature for to pitch his Tent Since that thy house meat grave they were not thine The reason is my Lord thou wouldst have mine Come Holy Ghost and by thy spritely art Hover and breathe upon my barren heart Since the place sacred is where God will come Make my heart like unto the Virgins Womb. Tho 't is not pure as knowing sin before Let it be Virgin knowing sin no more Once in a Manger was thy Body lay'd But in a Jakes I blush to have it said Into a worldly mind thou canst not come 'T is pinching narrow and it wanteth room Nor can I hear thy sweet and secret Voice In a House fill'd with jangling War and noise Nor canst thou dwell in a revengeful Brest The noise and hurry will disturb thy Rest Nor can my Lord an Habitation find Fit for thy Presence in an haughty mind Self taketh up the room and fills thy space Of residence and scorns to give thee place Uncleanness doth thy sacred spirit choak Bees shun the Hive when driven out by smoak Drunkards do quench thy Sprite pure and Divine Who cannot keep his own he cannot thine Nor can the God of truth e're dwell within A naughty mind where treachery hath been Since it betrays him to each tempting sin Nor can a sin within thy Temple dwell No more than Heaven can e're accord with Hell What friendship hath my God with Belial Why wouldst thou condescend Lord let me know Not to be made a man but man so low CHRIST Such was thy pride daring with God to vye And I atton'd it by humility God envys none his happiness to know it When pride atempted it and did foregoe it Humility points out the way unto it Such is the Virtue of an humble Soul Coupling all graces and secures the whole Blest be the grace to which alone 't is given To fetch God down to Earth raise man to Heaven Such is its power and vertue that it can Make man become like God and God like man God greater than himself can never be Except in this great in humility God and man courts this grace Heaven is Gods seat He 's but one more the humble soul is it When greatness doth with goodness twist and twine What can be more Heroick and Divine What makes the Sun so graceful but his light Quickning the meanest object of our sight Never did Radient Pearl so please the eye As to behold an humble Deity Learn O my Child